On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 02:53 +0200, Martin Jeppesen wrote:
> Are there anyone that have reached the October 18th milestone, so I
> can get a feeling how it is supposed to be done?
Not yet, I'm still investing time with the last 2.16.1 details. Now that
you mention it would be useful to provide a t
September 24th is the planned deadline for your work [1] and you are
mostly done. Congratulations! I think the results are excellent: we have
a cool homepage and... room to think the secondary pages.
Don't worry if there is still a loose piece in the footer or somewhere,
we will have a look at all
Would it be debatable to solve the many issues we have around GNOME +
news in a general plan with a main objective: a one and only
news.gnome.org?
This is one of the items in the revamped General navigation bar. It's ok
to have the Footnotes as they are now there, but we can work on
something much
On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 16:33 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> So, from a quick glance, it looks like dot.kde.org is a news source
> for
> news.google.org, gnomedesktop.org (for example) is not.
>
>
> The lesson, it appears to me, is that we should be looking for ways to
> have community news sources on
I have added a proposal for the required elements in the footer for wgo
at:-
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/ComponentSelection.
Please see the page and suggestions would be welcomed.
Cheers
Lee
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On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:40:43 +0200
Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> OK - it's clear that you're saying all these things to people other
> than those who should be hearing it.
>
Ehm, pardon? You started talking about the *vision* and how the
marketing team is supposed to handle things a
Ahoy,
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 13:21, Quim Gil wrote:
> During the GUADEC sprint I realized the obvious: we don't have a press
> team. We should.
Well of course :) Three people with a whiteboard, familiar to all the
contributors who are around, and with not much else to do. Write press
rele
Jeff Waugh a écrit :
>
>
>> http://www.google.com/trends?q=gnome%2Ckde&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
>
> Dave, you have to be a bit more discerning. :-) How realistic do you think
> those numbers are, considering your experience with our press coverage? It
> doesn't seem right, surely? Needs more inv
> http://www.google.com/trends?q=gnome%2Ckde&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
Dave, you have to be a bit more discerning. :-) How realistic do you think
those numbers are, considering your experience with our press coverage? It
doesn't seem right, surely? Needs more investigation, right? Perhaps I can
il
Hi,
Claus Schwarm a écrit :
> Can you provide a rationale why do you think the time of developers is
> so much more valuable than anybody else's time?
> I was just talking about efficient organization: to minimize the work
> load for everybody, some agreements need to be taken care of. So, if
Hi,
a few notes:
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:24:03 +0200
Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So yes, I think it is important for people interested in
> promoting GNOME (and particularly release notes writers) be aware of
> it.
There's a difference between being 'aware of it' and following it
cl
--- Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There's a lot of stuff people talk about on pgo.
> What do you think?
> > That release notes writers have nothing better to
> do than taking notes
> > about stuff developers say somewhere on the
> Internet?
>
> Well, it's my primary news source to k
Hi,
I'm feeling some aggression and defensiveness here which I'm going to
put down to cultural differences. I will say, though, that we all have a
part to play in improving things, and I think that this could have been
addressed better if I'd brought it up before the release (mea culpa).
Clau
During the GUADEC sprint I realized the obvious: we don't have a press
team. We should.
On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 13:33 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> http://www.google.com/trends?q=gnome%2Ckde&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
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On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 09:21 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> If there's one thing I regret it's that we didn't push this release as
> "The big performance push"
To me this is simply a proof that the release notes process followed
until now is either outdated or broken. The people who took over the
2.16
Hi,
Quim Gil a écrit :
> Perhaps Dave's original email -
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2006-September/msg00096.html -
> and all what we discussed in the "User oriented release notes" and "About the
> 2.18 release plans", including my proposal to start working now
> http://mai
Hi Claus,
Claus Schwarm a écrit :
> This is what could be made after feedback from a helpful Evolution
> developer. Read it and ask yourself how many people are really
> affected by these improvements. I'm not sure whether that would have
> been sufficient to produce the headlines you're thinking
On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 11:53 +0200, Claus Schwarm wrote:
> Do I miss something?
Perhaps Dave's original email -
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2006-September/msg00096.html -
and all what we discussed in the "User oriented release notes" and "About the
2.18 release plans", includin
Hi, Dave!
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:19:36 +0200
Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The problem with that page is:
> 1. technical focus, rather than user focus ("here are operations
> which are faster", rather than "Here are high-level usecases which
> are faster")
> 2. The language is prett
http://www.google.com/trends?q=gnome%2Ckde&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
Even though our search volume is staying roughly identical to KDE? look
at their news references.
We need to improve at this, the way the KDE promotion team have. That
means a CRM (on its way, honest) and a really regular feed
> I'm sorry I didn't bring this up before the release, when it would have
> been more useful. Let's just learn the lesson, and make sure our finger
> is on the pulse next time, and give kudos where it's due.
Gathering, sorting, and presenting the release information takes a lot of
time and effort.
Hi,
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:13:55 +0200
Quim Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We need a coordinator for the 2.18 release notes, the sooner the
> better. Be it Lucas, Dave, Claus or whoever wanting to push this
> until the release day.
>
I can sent reminder e-mails after the beta releases to a m
Hi,
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:21:34 +0200
Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To my mind that is definitely a bigger "feature" than "we will have
> more eye candy in future releases thanks to optional XGL support in
> Metacity".
>
Note that a performance page was written. It looked like this:
Murray Cumming a écrit :
>> I'm sorry I didn't bring this up before the release, when it would have
>> been more useful. Let's just learn the lesson, and make sure our finger
>> is on the pulse next time, and give kudos where it's due.
>
> Gathering, sorting, and presenting the release information
Hi,
Santiago Roza a écrit :
> maybe because we didn't have any benchmarks available, i guess. how
> could we have them for future releases?
The Evolution guys had (and sent us) benchmarks, Federico Mena, Ben
Maurer, Cecilia Gonzalez Alvarez, Phillip van Hoof, Behdad Esfahbod...
all of these peo
Quim Gil a écrit :
> Good bits in GNOME 2.16
> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/09/18/2031230
>
> Not yet del.icio.us user, sorry.
Gah. "some minor feature enhancements"?
If there's one thing I regret it's that we didn't push this release as
"The big performance push" - there was a wealth
On 9/26/06, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If there's one thing I regret it's that we didn't push this release as
> "The big performance push" ...
maybe because we didn't have any benchmarks available, i guess. how
could we have them for future releases?
i mean what to measure, with w
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